Nora Ephron

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#day #life #mother #next #one day

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#fantasy #loves #me #mind #nobody

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#continually #controversial #difficulty #distinguishing #fascinated

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#also #care #down #first #head

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#almost #basic #believe #desire #equally

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#concerned #date #even #far #i

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#any #child #desperate #enough #entering

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#basically #believed #cook #cooking #else

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#possible #realize #rest #somebody #soon

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#chapters #cut #last #pregnancy #two